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Garrison on the single-bullet theory
Jim
Garrison on the single-bullet theory
from
Oliver Stone’s JFK
“A
picture speaks a thousand words. Yet sometimes the truth is too simple
for some…The Warren Commission thought they had an open and shut case:
three bullets, one assassin—but two things happened that made it
virtually impossible: 1) the Zapruder film which you just saw, and
2) the third wounded man, Jim Tague, who was nicked by a fragment
down by the Triple Underpass. The time frame of 5. 6 seconds established
by the Zapruder film left no possibility of a fourth shot from Oswald’s
rifle, but the shot or fragment that left a superficial wound on Tague’s
cheek had to come from a bullet that missed the car entirely. Now
they had two bullets that hit, and we know one of them was the fatal
head shot. So a single bullet remained to account for all seven wounds
in Kennedy and Connally. But rather than admit to a conspiracy or
investigate further, the Commissioners chose to endorse the theory
put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, Arlen Specter. One of
the grossest lies ever forced on the American people, we’ve come to
know it as the “magic bullet” theory.”
“…the magic bullet enters the President’s back, headed downward at
an angle of 17 degrees. It then moves upward in order to leave Kennedy’s
body from the front of his neck—his neck wound number two—where it
waits 1.6 seconds, turns right and continues into Connally’s body
at the rear of his right armpit—wound number three. Then, the bullet
heads downward at an angle of 27 degrees, shattering Connally’s fifth
rib and leaving from the right side of his chest—wounds four and five.
The bullet continues downward and then enters Connally’s right wrist—wound
number six—shattering the radius bone. It then enters his left thigh—wound
number seven—from which it later falls out and is found in almost
“pristine” condition on a stretcher in a corridor of Parkland Hospital.
That’s some bullet. Anyone who’s been in combat can tell you never
in the history of gunfire has there been a bullet like this (the court
laughs). The Army Wound Ballistics experts at Edgewood Arsenal fired
some comparison bullets and not one of them look anything like this
one. Take a look at CE 856, an identical bullet fired through the
wrist of a human cadaver—just one of the bones smashed by the magic
bullet. Yet the government says it can prove this with some fancy
physics in a nuclear laboratory. Of course they can. Theoretical physics
can prove an elephant can hang from a cliff with its tail tied to
a daisy, but use your eyes—your common sense—seven wounds, skin, bone.
This single bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission’s
claim of a lone assassin. And once you conclude the magic bullet could
not create all seven of those wounds, you have to conclude there was
a fourth shot and a second rifleman. And if there was a second rifleman,
there had to be a conspiracy, which we believe involve the accused
Clay Shaw. Fifty-one witnesses, gentlemen of the jury, thought they
heard shots coming from the Grassy Knoll, which is to the right and
front of the President
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